History Film / Hollidaysburg

* HeroesWantRedheads: Katie subverts this trope -- she clearly ''thinks'' of herself as the most desirable person she knows, but none of the "heroes" of this story ends up wanting anything to do with her.

* AdaptationalSexuality: This movie changes Tori's older sister Marissa and her fiancé Gil from the original screenplay into a lesbian couple, Angela and Courtney, and [[AdaptationalHeroism makes them much more sympathetic characters]] along the way. This was possibly to avoid UnfortunateImplications of [[spoiler:keeping TheReveal that Janie/Katie is a lesbian from the screenplay while also making her a much more unlikable character and showing the reveal in a much more negative context]].

* PsychoLesbian: [[spoiler: Katie's cruel and controlling behavior toward Tori turns out to be because she's been nursing a repressed crush on her for years. Martemucci probably [[AdaptationalSexuality had Tori's sister also be gay]] in her version of the script specifically to avoid the UnfortunateImplications of this reveal.]]

* AsianAndNerdy: Played with. Heather, who is half-Asian, is far from a nerd -- she was the most popular girl in school -- but she was known as the high-achieving [[SmartGuy smart girl]] that whole time, and everyone is taken aback by the depth of her transformation due to depression.

A 2014 coming-of-age indie film, the debut of writer/director Anna Martemucci (now known professionally as A.M. Lukas). In [[ThePlace Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania]] (a central PA suburb of Altoona), a group of high school friends reunite during a Thanksgiving break from their college classes. Former prom king and college freshman Scott is dumped in the middle of sex by his girlfriend Heather, who seems to be having a mental health crisis, and strikes up an unlikely friendship with Tori, a former wallflower emerging from the shadow of her high school best friend Katie. As the two warm up to each other and embark on some wacky antics, their relationship starts to turn into something deeper.

* DecompositeCharacter: Phil and Petroff come off as this for the character of William from the original screenplay, with both of them being TheStoner but Phil being the one who has a more positive, BigBrotherMentor relationship with Scott (so that Scott can have a more realistically hostile relationship with Petroff after Petroff ambiguously becomes Heather's new LoveInterest). One of the RealityEnsues edits Martemucci made from Schoffer's screenplay is Schoffer having Scott and William play basketball with each other while they have a conversation hashing out their issues with each other, whereas the finished film prominently features Scott standing up Petroff for their basketball date and this conversation never really happening.

* RealityEnsues: Martemucci's interpretation of Schoffer's script involves a lot of CerebusSyndrome-style edits to his scenarios to make them feel more real. The big one is the inciting incident of Tori hitting Scott in her car -- he imagined it as nothing but a MeetCute, but in this film they immediately bring up the question of whether Scott has a concussion and needs medical attention, and whether this will lead to Tori getting arrested for a DUI.

* AmbiguousEnding: The movie deliberately does this, ending without a clear resolution on any of the romantic arcs we've seen ([[RealityEnsues realistically enough]], since the movie took place over the course of only a few days) with Tori giving us a narration about how people change every day and the future is unpredictable. In particular, even though Scott and Tori have had sex, all the obstacles to their relationship Tori named are still present and it's unclear if they're going to maintain a long-distance romance or leave their hookup in the past. Heather also goes back to school at Penn State -- because her dad essentially forced her to -- with no clear answer on whether she's going to go through with her plans to drop out in the end, and if her OddFriendship with Petroff will blossom into anything more.

* ClassClown: Scott, which is very much the basis of his BigManOnCampus popularity and his most endearing trait. Heather making him go through his repertoire of impressions as their last farewell to each other is both a SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfFunny and {{Tearjerker}}. It's a trait he inherited from his brother Phil, who bonds with him over comparing their ridiculous senior class pictures and their competition over who could {{Troll}} the photographer harder by including increasingly absurd accessories.

* StrugglingSingleMother: Petroff's unseen mom.

The process of this movie being made was documented on the SetBehindTheScenes RealityShow ''Series/TheChair2014'' on Creator/{{Starz}}, which documented Martemucci and WebVideo/ShaneDawson as they both set to make different films from the same script (Dawson's being ''Film/NotCool''). Of the two, ''Hollidaysburg'' was ''significantly'' better-received by critics.

The process of this movie being made was documented on the SetBehindTheScenes RealityShow ''Series/TheChair2014'' on Creator/{{Starz}}, which documented Martemucci and Creator/ShaneDawson as they both set to make different films from the same script (Dawson's being ''Film/NotCool''). Of the two, ''Hollidaysburg'' was ''significantly'' better-received by critics.

The process of this movie being made was documented on the SetBehindTheScenes RealityShow ''Series/TheChair2014'' on Creator/{{Starz}}.

The process of this movie being made was documented on the SetBehindTheScenes RealityShow ''Series/TheChair2014'' on Creator/{{Starz}},